I Nailed the Chic Dive Bar Aesthetic of My Dreams After scouring Facebook Marketplace and shopping my own collection of ephemera and such, my basement-turned-hangout is finally...
My Multiple-Seasons Outdoor Furniture Test I learned that just two things help determine that you’re getting what you paid for: what it’s made of and where it came from.
I Replaced My Big-Box Store Cabinets With Custom Plywood Fronts Well, my boyfriend did, but I supervised—and the process was surprisingly painless.
I Tried Cork Tiles to Achieve Warm Texture in a Dark Space Throwing a trendy material into the mix of my basement-bar makeover was a risky choice—but in the end, it paid off.
I Tested Stock Tank Pool Company Cowboy Pools During All Four Seasons It’s not exactly large enough for doing laps, but for me, it’s (much) better than nothing at all.
I Tried an “Architectural Wellness Paint” to Transform My Basement Into a Bar Welcome to Making a Bar, where I give my dungeon-esque downstairs a DIY glow-up. First up: What a difference a little color makes.
A Love Letter to “Material World,” a ’90s Photo Book of Families With All of Their Possessions An anti-“Cribs” before “Cribs” existed, the fascinating collection of global portraits turns the gawking of others that humans...
One Night in a Five-Star Resort at the Center of Big Sky’s Transformation During my stay at Montage Big Sky, I got an up-close look at what major development has meant for the formerly sleepy Montana...
One Night in an Ultra-Luxe Dude Ranch in Wyoming’s Wilderness Upscale, Western-style getaways have surged in popularity in recent years.
Our 15 Favorite Stories of 2023 From the Italian alps to the Kardashian-Jenner real estate industrial complex, here’s where we happily journeyed this year.
One Night in a Student–Staffed Hotel in Colorado My stay at Grand Junction’s Hotel Maverick brought me back to college life—in a good way.
One Night in a 1950s Motor Lodge Turned Los Angeles Hot Spot The recently opened Palihotel Hollywood markets itself as having an Old Hollywood aesthetic.
I Tried Everhem, the Influencer-Favorite Custom Curtain Company Could it take the pain out of ordering bespoke drapery, one linen panel at a time?
The L.A. Mansion Tax Comes for “Selling Sunset” The show’s seventh season frames Measure ULA as a big bad tax on the one percent—without ever identifying where the money goes.
Finding Wellness on Governors Island Parts of the former military outpost just below Manhattan have been rebranded as a quick city escape with glamping and self-care...
I Tried the New Custom Rug Company Ernesta to Cozy Up a Barren Room As a typically rug-averse woman with a strange space to zhuzh up, the DTC company from the cofounders of Peloton helped change my...
The Dwell 24: Tejumola Butler Adenuga A “close to near death” experience was the impetus for Adenuga to forge a new path for himself in the design world.
The Dwell 24: Heven Former models Breann Box and Peter Dupont craft organic, ethereal objects from glass.
One Night in a Parisian Hotel With a Hidden Roof Garden and Pops of Postmodern Decor On the tail end of a quick trip to Paris, I squeezed in a stay at Hotel Rosalie, an updated 13th arrondissement accommodation...
I Tried the Company Attempting to ‘Disrupt’ the Throw Pillow Space FLOOF wants to help you find the pillow of your dreams, without leaving your couch.
The Best Hotel in America Is Inside the Memphis Pyramid A continued object of social media fixation that contains a Bass Pro Shops in a man-made swamp, The Pyramid’s long history of...
Where the Bistro Chairs Are Born On a visit to French patio furniture company Fermob’s factory, one seating obsessive gets an up close-and-personal look at what...
A Trip to the Kips Bay Decorator Show House, and the Timeless Voyeurism of the 1 Percent This year’s event at the Upper West Side’s River Mansion sees 22 designers renovating a property normally only viewable from the...
A Completely Non-Exhaustive, Highlights-Only Survey of the Year in TV Homes In 2022, some of the most memorable houses we saw on non-scripted television were also the most, dare we say it, normal?
Are We Buying What “Buying Beverly Hills” Is Selling? Well, not the wildly expensive homes. But the intergenerational realtor drama, maybe!
Here’s Where Affordable Housing Won in the 2022 Midterms Across the country, voters opted to increase housing availability and decrease costs.
The Reason to Love Lakes Is the House Peeping How one New Yorker found a new favorite pastime in her search for a place to swim laps.
In “The Queen of Versailles Reigns Again,” an Unfinished Mega-Mansion Is Not a Home The follow-up to a deft documentary that made a couple building the largest single-family home in America seem human—even...